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Working with data-driven templates
- Does it matter which data-driven chart template I download – "Download PowerPoint" or "Download 2007 PPT File"?
- I can't read the numeric values for the segments. How do I fix this.
- The template's text attributes change when I import the slide into my template. What is going on?
- What is the best way to size pies to represent their totals (sort of like a bubble chart)?
- When should I use legends and keys? Where should I put them?
- Where is the best place to identify units in a chart?
- Where should I put footnotes and general notes on a slide?
- Why aren't there any downloadable animation schemes for the data-driven chart series?
- Why does the text come in with bullets?
- Why don't the bar, column, and waterfall charts have axes?
- Why don't the labels and totals in the bar charts and column charts match up after I enter my data?
- Why don't you use the labels for charts that are generated by the worksheet?
Working with Frameworks
- Animating ribbon and circular flows is tricky. What is the best way?
- Do the downloadable animation schemes work with every application?
- How can I best animate the pendulum, gauges, and other frameworks so that the pendulums/needles swing?
- How can I best use the downloadable animation schemes?
- How can I create an oval photograph from a rectangular photograph?
- How can I recolor the PNGs in the Design Elements Category?
- How do I create grayscale photographs with color overlays in PowerPoint 2003?
- How do I create grayscale photographs with color overlays in PowerPoint 2007?
- How do I create my own background as a picture?
- How do I create photographs in different shapes from rectangular photographs?
- How do I cut a photograph into puzzle pieces?
- How do I easily create perfectly round WordArt circles?
- How do I get a suitable bevel for puzzle pieces?
- How do you mute graphics so the text pops?
- Is there a way to create a field that blocks content on a slide that has a gradient or picture background, like when part of the segmented circle needs to be covered when spin animation is used?
- What are some good 3D rotation and formatting guidelines for creating platforms?
- What are the issues with gradients and overlaying text?
- What are wings?
Why are there series with and without wings? - What do I do if I'm a Keynote user?
- What do you mean by "ghosting" and/or "watermarks"?
- What do you mean by layering or ordering objects on a page?
- What do you mean by the "depth" of a 3D object?
- What is the best format for me to download?
- What is the best way to download and import frameworks in PowerPoint?
- Why are many of the frameworks saved in the Enhanced Metafile (EMF) format?
- Why are the frameworks so basic? Can't we just draw them ourselves?
- Why are there EMFs and downloadable PowerPoints?
- Why do the downloadable animation examples look different than the examples shown in the series?
- Why do the EMFs look jagged when I bring them into my presentation?
- Why don't you include text fields on your downloadable PowerPoint frameworks?
- Why don't you provide more in-depth "how tos" regarding PowerPoint
(explicit click-string instructions for customizations, etc.)? - Why don't your maps have any place names?
- Why is consistency so important? You talk about it a lot.
- Why is sizing multiple frameworks together so important?
Working with text tables
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